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January 27, 2023
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Green vs. Blue clip header

  • January 27, 2023
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I have a question about different ways of using a sequence material in another sequence. I had a couple of full length interviews back to back. I created transcrips and CC track using Adobe Premiere Pro 2022 which helped me to find out the director's edit notes that I used to jump back and forth in different points in the original timeline and use that material to develop the edit sequence. So I created an edit sequence and I was setting in/out points in the original sequence and somehow using that content and putting them back to back following the director's edit notes in the edit sequence. I had a break for a couple of weeks and went back to it. This time I am doing that but used simple copy / paste command to continue adding more clips from the original sequence to the edit sequence. I realized all the previous video clips I did have green header in the timeline and the new ones (copy/paste method) has blue header. I didn't know what I did different last time. Also when I double click on the blue header clips in the edit sequence it just opens them in the source monitor which is normally what I would expect but when I double click on the green header clips, it jumps back to that spot in the original sequence. I don't know how to change one to the other so both of them follow the same approach. For some reason with the green header clips I don't see the audio wave forms and I don't know what other limitations it has. I also don't know what benefit it has to do it this way. Not sure if it makes sense to keep the link between the two sequences clips or being independent makes more sense. What do you do normally and what is the benefit of it or drawbacks of the other method (linked vs. copy/paste)? Really appreciate your help.

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Ann BensCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2023

The label default tells you what the colors mean

 

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    Arya21811344hdigAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 27, 2023

    Thanks a lot for pointing out Ann. I will read through this table to make myself familiar with the colours. Also it's hood to know where to go to check them out if I forget. 👍

    Matt Young14394008
    Matt Young14394008
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    January 27, 2023

    When you load sequences into the source monitor and then set in/out points and insert clips into the new sequence timeline, they will appear as nested clips (in green) if the circled button below is activated:

    Click that off, and clips from existing sequences will insert as clips instead (blue, with waveform on audio).  

     

    -Matt

     

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      Arya21811344hdigAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 27, 2023

      Thanks Matt. Your tip is very helpful. That was what I did exactly. Not sure opening the sequence in the source monitor is a common thing but I tried to follow the same fashion of doing the selection from the original footage. 2nd time I was just doing in/out in original sequence tab, copied, and moving to the 2nd sequence tab and pasted and it wasn't any less convenient than doing it from the source monitor. Again it would be good to read pros and cons of one method vs. the other. Do you know if there is a quick way to un-nest the first part of my work (referencing to original footage instead of the sequence). If not, I will redo that process with that button turned off. I like to see the waveforms and generally I don't see a benefit in nesting for this situation. Although if you know any part of Premiere Pro manual or other tutorial sources that give examples of when nesting could be useful, I appreciate if you let me know.

      Thanks again. 

      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 30, 2023
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      When I use F key from the copy / paste clips in edit sequence naturally it opens up the movie file in the source monitor (doesn't have any attibute to do with the original sequence). Is there a way to find the corresponding in/out point in another sequence that has used the same content? I mean reflecting in/out points from the original movie file in the source monitor in my original sequence so this time I can copy and paste the corresponding content of the CC track to the edit sequence?

       

      To achieve what you're after, you can do the following:

      In the sequence you pasted the clip(s) into, left-click the clip and choose Reveal in Project.  That clip is then highlighted in the Project window.  Make sure you're in Icon View rather than List View, and hover over the blue film icon in the lower right corner of the thumbnail (don't click the thumbnail first because the blue icon will then disappear).  When you hover, a box will pop up next to your cursor telling you how many times the clip has been used in sequences. 

       

      Now click the blue icon, and you'll get a list of the sequences it appears in:

      Click on the sequence you originally copied from and it'll take you right to that clip in the sequence.  There you can grab your captions and you're good to go.

       

      -Matt

       

       

       

       


      You can do exactly the same in List View. Only make sure Video and or Audio Usage is shown in the metadatadisplay.

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